How shared ownership can work

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New home owner Sarah Bloch pictured near Canary Wharf in East London 27th of June 2011. Jon Enoch for The Times. Jon Enoch for The Times

Sarah Bloch

Last updated at 12:01AM, July 9 2011

My journey to home ownership

My journey into shared home ownership began, oddly enough, when I was looking
for a one-bedroom flat to rent in East London. With rent at more than £1,200
a month for the grottiest little studio I began to despair, until I had a
chance conversation with a friend who had bought through a shared-ownership
scheme in West Sussex.

Shared-ownership schemes are all hopelessly undermarketed, so it took a lot of
detective work and imaginative googling to find out where I could register.
It also took weeks to find the right flat, because viewings were only once
every fortnight, usually in